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"In  Honor  of  the  Confederate  Dead." 


MEMPHIS   BULLETIN    BOOK   \   JOB   OFFICE    PRINT. 
1865. 


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in  2013 


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A  PRAYER  FOR  CONGRESS  AND  THE  STATE  LEGIS- 
LATURES. 


Most  Gracious  God.  we  humbly  beseech  Thee,  as  for  the 
people  of  these  United  States  in  general,  so,  especially  for 
their  Senate  and  Representatives  in  Congress  and  the  State  Leg- 
islatures ;  that  Thou  wouldst  be  pleased  to  direct  and  prosper 
all  their  consultations,  to  the  advancement  of  Thy  glory,  the 
good  of  Thy  Church,  the  safety,  honor  and  welfare  of  Thy 
people;  that  all  things  may  be  so  ordered  and  settled  by  their 
endeavors,  upon  the  best  and  surest  foundation  ;  that  peace 
and  happiness,  truth  and  justice,  religion  and  piety  may  be 
established  among  us  for  all  generations.  These,  and  all  other 
necessaries  for  them,  for  us,  and  Thy  whole  Church,  we  humbly 
beg  in  the  name  and  mediation  of  Jesus  Christ,  our  most 
blessed  Lord  and  Saviour.     Amen. 


It  is  proposed  to  the  people  of  the  Southern  States  that  they  j 
erect  a  monumental  Cathedral,  grand  in  its  proportions  ;  adorn  . 
ed  with  sculpture,  and  breathing  in  its  solemn  architecture,  the 
spirit  of  pride  and  sorrow  which  characterize  our  native  land,  j 
An  edifice  somewhat  in  the  style  of  Westminister  Abbey, with  j 
oratories,  halls,  screens,  catacombs,  niches  for  statuary,  ', 
embrazed  pavements,  and  marble  tablets  on  which  the  names  i 
of  our  heroic  dead  may  be  written. 

Memphis  has  been  chosen  as  a  fit  locality,  because  central, 
accessible,  and  rendered  very  prominent  by  the  laws  of  nature 
and  commerce. 

The  following  building  Committee,  each  of  whom  are  known     j 
throughout    the   South,    has  been  elected:     Hon.  Archibald    j 
Wright,  R.  C.  Brinkley,  Esq,,  SaIl.  P.  Walker,  Esq..  D.  M.    jj 
Leathkrmax,  Esq.,  Thomas  H.  Au.k.v,  Esq.,  Treasurer,  and 
Hexry  Hampton,  Secretary. 

VOICE  OF  SUBSCRIBERS. 

Should  it  be  deemed  by  the  building  committee,  expedient 
to  deviate  from  the  general  plan,  of  the  edifice  announced 
above,  all  subscribers  will  be  duly  notified  to  meet  either  in 
person  or  by  proxy,  at  some  accessible  place,  to  determine  by 
vote  (each  subscription  of  $25  counting  one  vote)  the  expediency 
of  such  deviation,  and  the  action  of  the  majority  of  all  who  vote  | 
will  be  acquiesced  in  by  the  whole  body  of  subscribers. 
FORM    OF  RELIGION. 

The  Cathedral  will  be  dedicated  to  the  glory  of  God,  accord- 
ing  to  the  ritual  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
PASTOR. 

The  Cathedral  will  be  the  Diocesan  Church  of  the  Bishop  of 
Tennessee,  under  the  superintendence  of  the  Rector  of  St. 
Lazarus  Church  only  until  finished. 


SPIRIT  OF  THE     ENTERPRISE  IN    ITS    POLITICAL 
ASPECT. 

The  Church  of  Christ  having  been  cursed  by  political 
preachers,  in  many  places,  and  houses  desecrated  by  the  angry 
spirit  of  the  world,  which  were  reared  by  their  pious  founders, 
to  promote  a  religion  which  proclaims  "peace  on  earth,  good 
will  towards  men,"  the  projectors  of  St.  Lazarus'  Cathedral, 
while  they  weep  over  their  heroic  dead,  and  desolated  country, 
accept  in  good  faith,  the  "new  order  of  things,"  and  would  see 
the  whole  nation  from  Mexico  to  Canada,  united,  prosperous 
and  happy. 

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The  following  is  extracted  from  the  correspondence  of 
Harpers'  Weekly  of  Oct-  7th  : 

"The  disposition  of  the  people  here  is  to  make  heroes  of 
those  who  fought  and  fell  in  the  rehel  ranks-    Only  last  Sabbath 

one  Rev- Rogers,   Rector   of  the    St.    Lazarus   Episcopal 

Church,  delivered  a  discourse  in  'honor  of  the  Confederate 
dead-'  This  ROGERS  proposes  to  build  in  Memphis  a  Cathedral 
which  'shall  hand  down  to  an  admiring  posterity,  the  names  of 
the  heroes  who  fell  in  a  noble  cause-'  Three  thousand  five 
hundred  dollars  were  pledged  in  two  days  for  This  cathedral. 

"Does  it  not  stand  us  in  hand  to  teach  these  men  what 
treason  is,  and  the  punishment  due  traitors  ? 

"It  is  common  talk  among  officers  here  that  the  war  ended 
too  booh,  We  expect  to  fight  it  again,  if  too  lenient  a  policy  is 
adopted  byCongress  in  dealing'  with  unrepentant  and  still  proud 
and  haughty  rebels." 

We  render  not  railing  for  railing,  hut  "contrary-wise — 
blessing,"  and  will  only  add,  by  way  of  defence,  the  following: 

SKETCH  OF  WESTMINISTER  ABBEY, 

Westminister  Abbey,  or  the  collegiate  Church  of  West- 
minister, was  founded  by  Sebert,  King  of  the  Saxons.  The 
style  throughout,  except  Henry  VII's  chapel,  is  early  English, 
very  rich,  and  rather  "late"  in  style.  "Poets' Corner,"  "The 
chapel  of  the  Deans  of  the  college,"  "St. Emanuel's, "containing 
thirty  nionuments— "Henry  VH's  Chapel,"  "St.  Paul's  (in 
which  is  the  great  altar  tomb  to  Lord  Bourchier,  standard- 
bearer  to  Henry  V,  who  fell  at  the  battle  of  Agincourt)  "Chapel 
of  Edward  the  Confessor,"  "St.  Erasmus'  "  St.  John,  the  Bap- 
tist," (containing  a  monument  to  Colonel  Pophani,  one  of 
Cromwell's  officers  at  Sea,  hut  permitted  to  remain  ?/»  the  Abbey  even 
after  the  Restoration,  and  "Abbot  Tslep's  Chapel."  These  nine 
make  up  all  the  chapels  now  in  the  Abbey,  but  the  E  aisle  of  the 
North  transcept4was  divided,  once  by  screens,  into  the  chapels 
of  "St.  John,"  "St.  Michael"  and  'St.  Andrew."  Here  are 
two  of  the  finest  monuments  of  the  world.  Four  knights 
kneeling,  and  supporting  on  I  heir  shoulders  a  table,  on  which 
lie  the  several  parts  of  a  complete  suit  of  armor;  beneath,  is 
the  recumbent  figure  of  Sir  Francis  Vere,  the  great  low  country 
soldier  0f  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign.    But   nowhere  does  history 


represent  him  as  more  worthy  of  honor  than  Stonewall 
Jackson,  Leonidas  Polk,  Albert  Sydney  Johnston,  and 
many  other  officers  and  privates,  who  fell  in  our  great  civil 
war.  In  the  choir,  nave,  north  and  south  transcepts, 
are  many  monuments  which  illustrate  how  completely  the 
grave  covers  all  resentments  and  buries  every  feeling 
of  political  rancor.  There  you  see  the  tomb  of  the  great  rivals, 
Fox  and  Pitt : 

"The  mighty  chiefs  sleep  side  by  side- 
Drop  upon  Fox's  grave  a  tear, 
'Twill  trickle  to  his  rival's  bier."— Sir  Walter  Scott. 

There  you  behold  a  monument  to  Maj.  Andre,  executed  by 
the  Americans  as  a  spy  in  the  year  1780,  and  on  the  bass  relief 
a  figure  of  General  Washington.  It  is  true,  however,  that 
minds  of  a  certain  order,  are  sometimes  inclined  to  dishonor 
the  heroic  or  gifted  dead,  long  after  political  "issues"  which 
may  have  rendered  them  odious  have  been  forever  settled; 
and  a  notable  instance  is  suggested  to  every  traveller  as  he 
pauses  in  the  south  transcept  of  Westminister  before  the  mon- 
ument to  Phillips.  When  the  inscription  "««*  Miltono  secundus" 
was  presented  to  a  testy  and  narrow-minded  clergyman — Dr. 
Spratt,  then  dean  of  the  Abbev:  he  said,  "the  name  of  Milton  was 
in  his  opinion  too  detectable  to  be  read  on  the  walls  of  a  building  dedicated 
to  devotion."  And  even  the  head  of  Washington  there,  was 
thrice  knocked  off  by  miscreants,  who,  under  cover  of  darkness, 
took  revenge  upon  the  dead.  It  is  true  that  Washington 
rebelled  against  his  government,  and  succeeded,  while  Milton 
was  a  rebel  and— failed  I  But  the  great  and  gifted  of  all  lands, 
in  Westminister  Abbey, sleep  as  quietly  as  though  their  bosoms 
had  never  heaved  with  ambition  or  pride,  while  the  truly  good 
of  all  nations  pause  before  their  monuments  and  render  the 
homage  of  a  sigh. 


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